Lene Cecilia Sparrok
Lene Cecilia Sparrok | |
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| Born | 6 October 1997 |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
Lene Cecilia Sparrok (born 6 October 1997) is a Norwegian Southern Sámi actress and reindeer herder. She played the main character, Elle-Marja, in the Sami 2016 film Sami Blood, for which she won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Sporrok was born on 6 October 1997 in Namsskogan Municipality, Norway. She grew up in a family connected to Southern Sámi culture and learned reindeer herding at a young age. She went to a boarding school in Hattfjelldal for a few years before moving to a school in Snåsa.
She speaks Southern Sámi, Norwegian and Swedish.